School officials had best get ready: the lesson of the Connecticut mass shootings in a grade school is about to come home to hundreds of such institutions across the United States. A random sampling of school parents in my area…
Time was the Eastern Seaboard of the United States would disappear this time of year. Palls of gray smoke enveloped the countryside as residents burned the tons of leaves produced by deciduous trees. Some packed them into compost heaps and…
Editors: Looking for a headline for these past few days? How about one from the past: “A R F!” says Sandy.
Just so we all (a million or more) know — that was no ordinary thunderstorm last Friday night. It was a “derecho” — a meteorologist’s fancy word for a line of storms. Fast-moving and violent, a line more than 240…
A recent edition of the TV quiz Jeopardy offered the question of who an Indian named Osceola might have been. One contestant suggested “Cree[k]” and two declared “Seminole.” Those two were declared correct by the ceremony master, Alex Trebek. I…
So, America is just discovering a truth about its favorite spectator sport — football! NFL football, the professional kind, where a team’s slogan might well be: “We Aim To Lame!” Semi-documented so far is the habit of paying players bonuses…
It was the voice of my grandson. Speaking in his usual manner, apologizing for sounding so nervous, but explaining that he was on a brief vacation in Panama and had wrecked a rental car and was under arrest in Panama…
Years ago, when I was a boy, there was a small airfield on the west side of town where you could take flying lessons for about 7-dollars an hour. There were Piper Cubs and Aroncas and a lot of us…
As the United States retreats from its space efforts, its partner in the latest project has been forced to appeal to Moscow for help. The European Space Agency has formally asked Russia if it would like to take part in…